Manifolding sales-check.



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APPLICATION IILEI) JAN. 23, 1909.

937,658}, Patented Oct. 19, 1909.

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FRANK THOMAS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

MANIFOLDING SALES-CHECK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 19, 1909.

Application filed January 23, 1909. Serial No. 473,884.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, F RANK THOMAS, a citizen of the United States,residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York,have invented new and useful Improvements in Manifolding Sales-Checks,of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in manifolding sales checks ofthe kind set forth in U. S. Patent No. 905,606 of Dec. 1, 1908 and theobject of the invention is to enable the function of checking to beaccomplished in a quicker and safer way than in the case of saidpatented device as also to avoid the liability of errors.

This invent-ion is set forth in the following specification and claimand illustrated in the annexed drawing in which Figure 1 is a plan viewof an envelop containing a sales check said envelop being closed and theextension folded over. Fig. 2 is a view like Fig. l with an order slip.Fig. 3 is a cross section of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 shows the envelop open andthe extension detached.

This invention comprises an envelop or receptacle composed of two leaves1 and 2. The leaf 1 has the extended portion 4 at one side thereofadapted to receive the prices of the articles which articles would benoted upon an order slip 10. In order to enable the price to be recordedsimultaneously upon the envelop and upon the order slip the extendedportion at one side of the envelop is folded over and the order slip isplaced with the end or edge portion adapted to receive the purchaseprice under this folded over part of the envelop. This extended sideportion 4 of the envelop is not necessarily one piece therewith butcould be printed or formed as a separate piece. By having this improvedflap or extended portion 4 the same can be turned over and the pricewill have to be written but once namely, on the extended portion. Asuitable surface of transfer material on the extended portion of theenvelop can be made to face the order slip if one is used and theextended portion when folded over will enable prices which are recordedon the extended portion to be recorded or reproduced in the propermanner on underlying parts. By one notation the prices can thus berecorded on the extended portion of the envelop as also upon the orderslip if one is used and upon the the leaf 2 thereof. This constructionor improvement allows quicker operation and avoids the probability oftwo items being copied one on top of the other inside the envelop. Suchaccident as the superposition of two items was liable to happen in thestructure disclosed in applicants aforesaid Patent 905,606. Such errorwould arise if a waiter or operator would forget to record the price thesecond time on the extended portion and would then turn in the orderslip to the checker or cashier and subsequently enter upon a subsequentorder slip a continuation of the order which had already been enteredwith its prices upon the first-order slip. Using said new or subsequentorder slip in connection with the same envelop check and extendedportion and guided by the last entry the waiter would write one or moreitems or prices one on top of the other.

Inclosed in the envelop is a coating of transfer material to enable theorder with prices which are marked upon the order slip and upon thefolded extended portion of the envelop to be reproduced upon the checkinclosed in such envelop.

Should the waiter or operator omit or forget to enter the purchase priceat all such mistake would be discovered by the person authorized toreceive the order slip so that the proper correction could be made.Furthermore the extended portion of the envelop folding over a portionof the order slip would insure the placing of such order slip onto anenvelop so that notations would be made both on the extended portion andon the order slip as also on the check in the envelop and the controlleror authorized receiver of the order slip would have in the latter anexact reproduction of the entries on the extended portion and upon thecheck.

The extended portion 4.- can be connected by a rip line to an edge 3which is adapted to co-act with the counter-edge 3 to seal or gum theedges of the envelop. When the extended portion is detached as indicatedin Fig. 4 the edges 3 still adhering keep the envelop closed when handedto the customer who can then inspect the notations by open ing theenvelop in any desired manner. In case of short orders or where thewhole order is given at once the order slip might be omitted and theorders and prices entered,

check contained or printed in the envelop on A on the folded overportion.

WVhat I claim is In a manifolding device the combination of an envelophaving a sales check therein and a reproducing material within theenvelop in copying relation to the sales check whereby when the articlespurchased and purchase price are recorded on an order slip on theoutside of the envelop contiguous thereto, a copy is made on the salescheck said envelop having an extended portion at one side thereofadapted to fold over an edge of the order slip to enable sales prices tobe simultaneously recorded on the extended portion upon the order slipand upon the sales check, said extended portion hav- 15 ing a transfersurface in position to overlie the price column of the order slip whensaid extended portion is folded.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of tWosubscribing 20 witnesses.

Witnesses V. C; HAUFF,

CHRISTIAN ALMSTAEDT.

